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When The Last Grave Has Emptied · The Black Dahlia Murder

EXERCISE 15 OF 52
4-bar fill at bar 78
73 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKSDOB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When The Last Grave Has Emptied on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
100/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-15, hi-hat through bars 16-17 and ride through bars 18-19, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-26, 54-60 and 92-98 -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |--o---o---o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
When The Last Grave Has Emptied -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 9, 15, 16, 19, 31 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  7. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 9-82 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is When The Last Grave Has Emptied?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is When The Last Grave Has Emptied hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in When The Last Grave Has Emptied?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 9, 15, 16, 19, 31 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED